Well I finally bit the bullet and ordered the kit (couldn't beat the free shipping). I'll have to reread all the threads about what mods to do. I've put off buying this for a while (need to thin out the fleet) but whatever. Should be an easy build, as I've built 4 of the smaller Sky Surfers already.

You were very, very lucky. I did that once (45A through a 30A Phoenix HV 30). The result was a plane that literally caught fire in the air. It was a total loss - About $200 to replace everything. Check out the pics below.
AJ
P.S. I sent the ESC in and Castle replaced it because the automatic temp shutoff failed (obviously). But, I had to fight with them pretty hard to get that. They wanted me to pay half the cost for an ESC that was only 1 month old. To this day, I will never use a CC ESC for anything.

Apparently I'm missing something.

You say you will never again use a CC ESC for anything because you're upset that an ESC rated for 30A caught fire when you continually pulled 45A through it!!?

Do you expect that a companies product should be able to withstand any kind of abuse you dish out and not damage your plane?

Well I finally bit the bullet and ordered the kit (couldn't beat the free shipping). I'll have to reread all the threads about what mods to do. I've put off buying this for a while (need to thin out the fleet) but whatever. Should be an easy build, as I've built 4 of the smaller Sky Surfers already.

Glad you didn't have to bite a big one Where'd you find the free shipping?

I just bought mine the other night from Banana Hobby and they have free shipping for all orders over $50 right now.

$139.90 + free shipping. Awesome.

I've always liked my dad's Easy Star (in concept) but I could never buy one because I have a personal rule about never buying or flying anything with less than 4 channels... so when I stumbled across this SSS.... well, I had to get one!! Not only does it have ailerons but flaps!? Sold.

I just bought mine the other night from Banana Hobby and they have free shipping for all orders over $50 right now.

$139.90 + free shipping. Awesome.

I've always liked my dad's Easy Star (in concept) but I could never buy one because I have a personal rule about never buying or flying anything with less than 4 channels... so when I stumbled across this SSS.... well, I had to get one!! Not only does it have ailerons but flaps!? Sold.

Iv started building a little board for my power distribution and think im going to go with three separate 3A BEC's...

1 for flap/Rud (6v)
1 for Ail/ELE (6v)
1 for RX/OSD (5.5v)

But... I may use the Turnigy Trust BEC for either flaps/rud or Rx/OSD the main power requirements are the Aileron and Elevator. The highest draw system will probably be both flaps down, thats why ill keep those two seperate.

Chris

Just be aware: you are adding failure points. In principle, put each aileron on a different power circuit, since you can fly with one aileron. (They could still use a common RX channel.) I don't see other ways to diversify risk: failing flaps is not a problem.
I do like having two different voltages available.

Just be aware: you are adding failure points. In principle, put each aileron on a different power circuit, since you can fly with one aileron. (They could still use a common RX channel.) I don't see other ways to diversify risk: failing flaps is not a problem.
I do like having two different voltages available.

I have mixed flaprons... If my Ailerons fail i still have roll control with that...

My last one ran fine off the internal 3A Sbec of the Turnigy Trust ESC so ill probably just break out the Flaps to their own BEC.